I Haven't Even Achieved My Final Form! (PSU)

[lykabaus]

Hey Shred Ninjas,

It's Marc Peralta and I finally caved in to writing a footblog. This is my first time blogging about anything so get ready for some drivel:

I started the shred two years ago. I'd been hackin' the sack for a long time (probably started in middle school?) and I thought I was some seriously hot shit for getting 30 contacts with inside and toe stalls mixed in. Boy was I wrong. I was trying to get my friends at PSU to kick the sack with me because I just loved hackisack, and one day my friend comes across the PSU crew in front of Old Main by himself. He told me the same day to check them out because I would love them to shit. All he could talk about was how crazy these kids were and all the crazy shit they could do. I expected them to be better, but damn when I saw the Old Main video Ivan posted that year I shat bricks. Big fat bricks. All I could think was, "How do I do that?? Where do I learn? Who's the Muffin Man?!" So I messaged the guy who gave his information to my friend. The zany Nick Polini. That was the start of one of the greatest things that has ever happened to me in my entire life. We met up, and I joined the club. In my time with the PSU crew I've went from Clueless to Tiltless, soon Guiltless (I feel it deep in my loins), and I have so much more I want to do.

Tricks that I can currently hit (All Tricks Listed are Both Sided):
ATW (Poorly)
Orbit (Okay)
Clipper (Record Alternating 20)
Mirage (Relatively Well)
-Near Mirage
Pickup (poorly)
Legover (Relatively Well)
-Far Legover
-SS Legover
Butterfly (My Favorite Trick)
-SS Butterfly from Clipper (My Second Favorite Trick)
Infinity (Record Unmuted 12)
-(Record Muted 7)
PDX Mirage (Okay)
Osis (Third Favorite, still suck at them though)
-Frigid Osis (Kinda)
-Osis to Osis (Record Alternating 9)
Gyro Clipper (Lol kinda)
Ducking Clipper (Fourth Favorite Trick)
Diving Clipper
Ducking Butterfly
DLO (Once)
Illusion (meh)
Stepping SS Clipper
Stepping Legover
Stepping Clipper
Stepping Far Osis
Ripwalk (getting better)
Sidewalk (poorly)
Blur (poorly)
Pogo SS Clipper
Alpha Ripwalk
*NEW*
Pogo Muted Osis (CALL IT POGIS )


Looking at this list now as I write it down after almost two years of footbag I can't believe how many tricks I have hit already. Eventually this list will be a whole page, or at least that's the goal. I'm pretty open to feedback/criticism and welcome anyone to give me pointers. I love the footbag community, and everyone I've met has been so awesome.

My Biggest Inspirations so far are:

-Nick Polini for opening my eyes to this amazing sport and being the best noobie coach you could ever ask for.
-Nathan Pipenberg for being ridiculously good and making me want to be even better.
-Jon Schneider for his awesome tips and exposing me to NYFA.
-Ivan Iakimenko and Ryan Morris for being great shred partners and leading the PSU club to new heights
-The Whole PSU Crew for letting me teach newcomers and learning from them as well
-NYFA

So for tonight I'm signing out. Like I said,

This isn't even my final form.

[isirc10]

Welcome Marc! Lets put a face to a name:

[F[uns]tylin' Eclectic]

Hell yes dude. So glad you finally started one of these jawnsters. You wont regret it. Keep updating as you have sessions. I'd love to keep up with your game and everyone else's. SO much improvement since last time we kicked together. Keep kicking ass and have fun with those pogo sets! Use this blog to its full potential, like Ivan and I were telling you about. When you have a bad shred day, look back on all the stuff in your blog and see how far you've come. Keep playing smart and you're going to get so good. Can't wait to shred with you at East Coasts. It was fun pumping ironz with you, Ryan, and Marc earlier. I'm going to go in your room and bug you now. bye!

[Strix]

Looking at this list now as I write it down after almost two years of footbag I can't believe how many tricks I have hit already. Eventually this list will be a whole page, or at least that's the goal. I'm pretty open to feedback/criticism and welcome anyone to give me pointers. I love the footbag community, and everyone I've met has been so awesome.

This isn't even my final form.

After looking at your list and knowing it took two years to get to where you are, its impressive. It shows how much dedication and effort it takes to get up. Thanks for taking the time to make a blog. Its an inspiration to see the talent. Keep shredding.

[krustykrakk]

Hi, Marc.

[Dready09]

Nice Mark! Sounds like your getting pretty good, props on the stepping sets i cant even get anything out of it yet. Id recommend working on whirl if you havnt already. Keep shredding many

[lykabaus]

Ben, your avatar is epic.

Ryan, thanks for the support I try my hardest .

Corey, your avatar is hilarious.

(All trick strings listed are subject to incorrectness due to being ignant)

Today I decided to kick for shits and gigs and to just clear my head. My legs have been jelly since Nick came and we shredded everyday. I didn't do anything super hard. I did like 80 toe stalls which was fun, and kind of painful. I need to work on my endurance if I get tired after 80 toe stalls. I drilled clippers too, favorite drill. But today I invented a new drill for myself! I originally did clipper>ss osis> far clipper repeat to drill one side at a time. It worked nicely to get my flip side osis to not suck so many balls, but it ended up making my strong side feel funny. So I went and changed the drill. Now I do clipper>osis>ss clipper>osis repeat, to loop it back to back infinitely I hit 8 in a row!! (I'm really proud of this) I also broke my osis to osis string record by 1! (Whatever man this is cool for me.) I did that drill for a good 30 minutes and now I'm nice and sweaty. My shins don't feel like snapping and I'm slightly better at something, I call that a win.

I feel a power up coming.

[Strix]

That sounds like a good drill for getting balance. No viddys? Would be good to SEE your progress. Always something to learn and enjoy.

[isirc10]

Yo, you went to a tournament and haven't updated your blog. Something is wrong with this. Very very wrong.

[F[uns]tylin' Eclectic]

Something is wrong with YOU (crank that soulja boy).

[lykabaus]

HEY EVERYONE,

I have been super fucking lazy and never got around to recording my wonderful times in New York with NYFA. It was definitely a trip, and being at my first competition was crazy fun and exciting. I think going to a tournament for the first time really opened up my eyes on how much I have improved, and how much I still need to improve. I feel like by just going to a comp other player's gooey goodness just rubbed off on me. Before going to East Coasts, I couldn't even illusion on both sides and I was terrible at PDX mirage. After being back at PSU for a couple of days, I can string those bsos/b2b as if I actually practice them. It's a pretty good feeling (and I actually am practicing them now). I met some really awesome people, and got schooled by Mikie Etlinger and Ryan Morris (good job guys) in the final intermediate circle comp. The most amazing thing is that it's not discouraging to get beat, its down right motivating. All I can think about is making a routine for when we host Jamps at PSU, and what cool tricks I can bust out to PWN NUBZ in comp. I even have a video for everyone!!! (SEE MY PROGRESSSSSSSS)

Me practicing some tricks that I can't hit consistently yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6cFUktP67U

Intermediate Circle Comp:
Intermediate Qualifiers- Variety: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzmDBg2J_CA
Intermediate Qualifiers- Difficulty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuFy9JLvPnc (I floundered hard here)
Intermediate Finals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPRTtQB_u0A

PS PS PS: I hit Pogo Muted Osis BS the week before East Coasts and I thought it was really cool and weird. I shall dub it Pogis for my own personal use (you're totally welcome to pick that name up if you want )

[lykabaus]

Sup footbag addicts,

I finally have some time to write in my esteemed footblog. This weekend an Outsider was in our midst. Stay golden Pony Boy. It was a pretty shredtastic weekend. Any time I kick with Outsider Schneider I always learn something new. And as a matter of fact, my osis have become even better (although they're still not that great) because of drills he showed me. I wish I had video but I don't carry my laptop around, and I don't really have anyone to video tape me using my phone. Regardless, I have been trying to drill osis by doing osis from literally EVERYTHING. Osis to far osis, osis to osis, kicks to osis, near toe and far toe to osis, you name it. It's helping me understand how osis works instead of just setting it perfectly from clipper and hoping for the best. I've also been drilling steps like nobody's business doing stepping far clipper repeat. My steps have become noticeably more consistent, but I still have a lot of work to do on that. Today I actually demo'd some freestyle for my class on creativity showcasing how freestyle is creative. I dropped once, but I still got some "ooh's and aaah's" so that was good. And since I was already geared up and warmed up (with a couple of hours of rare free time) I decided to just shred for fun. Eventually, the illustrious Benjamin Babyak and Greg WEINERRR joined me to shred hard. It was a great session. In fact, I think it was one of my best sessions yet. I was hitting Illusions relatively consistently (just really started to drill and practice them), I was getting multiple stepping tricks in the same run, getting osis all over the place, PDX mirages, hell I was running pretty much guiltless and it felt fucking GOOD. Today was one of the first times where I really thought I did well, and I'm really proud of the strings I was hitting. I really wish I could have gotten some video of it. Oh well, there's always more time. Thanks to Greg Wenner for actually kicking with me (BECAUSE HE NEVER DOES :C). Today was a good day.

[krustykrakk]

I also kicked with you today :C

[Cass]

Hi.

You're cool.

Let's rage again ASAP.

[isirc10]

Here, have a donkey. The donkey is sad because Marc doesn't check modified anymore.

Miss you Marc. So does the donkey.

[Ryan_Morris]

We are hijacking Marc's footblog. Nobody tell Marc about this.

[isirc10]

This is a test if I can change the title of the blog to what it actually is...

Edit: that didn't work. Oh well.

[Allan]

Edit the very first post in the thread.

[akprice]

welcome to the footblogs bro! it'll be good to see your progression!

[F[uns]tylin' Eclectic]

Lol Aaron, Marc quit modified a while ago. He still plays though